This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language

Russian language

Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...

. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.

For the plain text list, see :Category:Russian novelists.

See also: List of Russian language writers, List of Russian language poets, List of Russian language playwrights, List of Russian artists, List of Russian architects, List of Russian inventors, List of Russian explorers, Russian literature

Russian literature

Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...

, Russian culture

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Portrait	Author	Notable works	Illustration	Illustration
	Fyodor Abramov Fyodor Abramov Fyodor Aleksandrovich Abramov was a Russian novelist and literary critic. His work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. He was frequently reprimanded for deviations from Soviet policy on writing.... (1920–1983)	The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers
	M. Ageyev M. Ageyev M. Ageyev is believed to be the nom-de-plume of Russian author Mark Lazarevich Levi , .-Biography:... (1898–1973)	Cocain Romance Cocain Romance The Cocain Romance, or Novel With Cocaine , is a mysterious Russian novel first published in 1934 in a Parisian émigré publication, Numbers, and subtitled "Confessions of a Russian opium-eater". Its author was given as M. Ageyev...
	Chinghiz Aitmatov Chinghiz Aitmatov Chyngyz Aitmatov was a Soviet and Kyrgyz author who wrote in both Russian and Kyrgyz. He was the best known figure in Kyrgyzstan's literature.- Life :... (1928–2008)	Jamilya Jamilya Jamilya is the first major novel by Chingiz Aytmatov, published originally in Russian in 1958. The novel is told from the point of view of a fictional Kyrgyz artist, Seit, who tells the story by looking back on his childhood... The White Ship The White Ship (Aitmatov novel) "The White Ship" is a novel written by Kyrgyz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov. It was first published in 1970.... The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years , originally published in Russian in the Novy Mir literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov.-The title of the novel:...
	David Aizman David Aizman -Biography:David Aizman was born in Nikolayev, a coastal city in what is now Ukraine. His older brothers were revolutionary activists. He went to Paris in 1896 to study painting. In 1898 he and his wife, a Russian-Jewish physician, moved to the French countryside. While living in France, he made... (1869-1922)	The Countrymen
	Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859)	The Scarlet Flower The Scarlet Flower The Scarlet Flower , also known as The Little Scarlet Flower or The Little Red Flower, is a Russian folk tale written by Sergey Aksakov... The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy
	Vasily Aksyonov Vasily Aksyonov Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov was a Soviet and Russian novelist. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn and Generations of Winter , a family saga depicting three generations of the Gradov family between 1925 and 1953.-Early life:Vasily Aksyonov was... (1932–2009)	The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter Generations of Winter Generations of Winter is a novel by Russian writer Vasily Aksyonov.Many critics have praised Generations of Winter as a new Doctor Zhivago large-scale Russian novel, which tells the story of a Russian family Gradov struggling to survive in the Stalinist era.As the Wall Street Journal has put it:... The Winter's Hero
	Boris Akunin Boris Akunin Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:... (born 1956)	Erast Fandorin series Erast Fandorin Erast Petrovich Fandorin is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective and the hero of a series of Russian historical detective novels by Boris Akunin. The first novel was published in Russia in 1998, and the latest was published in December 2009... Nicholas Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin Nicholas Fandorin is the protagonist of three novels by Boris Akunin, subtitled ' "adventures of the magister [viz., the MA]". The uniting concept of the series is that each novel combines two storylines, one set in present-day Russia , and a related one set in the Tsarist Russia .*2001: Altyn... Sister Pelagia series
	Mikhail Albov Mikhail Albov -Biography:Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He was especially interested in foreign works such as Robinson Crusoe and David Copperfield. Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls also made a deep impression on him... (1851-1911)	On the New Road
	Yuz Aleshkovsky Yuz Aleshkovsky Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky , known as Yuz Aleshkovsky , is a modern Russian writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs.-Biography:... (born 1929)	The Hand Kangaroo
	Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938)	Napoleonder
	Daniil Andreyev Daniil Andreyev Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.- Biography :... (1906–1959)	Roza Mira Roza Mira Roza Mira is the title of the main book by Russian mystic Daniil Andreev. It is also the name of the predicted new universal religion, to emerge and unite all people of the world before the advent of the Antichrist, described by Andreev in his book...
	Leonid Andreyev Leonid Andreyev Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history... (1871–1919)	Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged The Seven Who Were Hanged The Seven That Were Hanged is a 1909 novel by Russian author Leonid Andreyev. Herman Bernstein translated the novel from Russian to English.-Plot:...
	Aleksey Apukhtin Aleksey Apukhtin -Biography:Following the traditions of amorous gypsy romance, he introduced into this genre much of his own artistic temperament. Many of his romances were set to music by his friend Pyotr Tchaikovsky and by other well-known composers .Apukhtin's reputation as a poet was further strengthened in... (1840–1893)	From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D
	Maria Arbatova Maria Arbatova Maria Ivanovna Arbatova born July 17, 1957, is a Russian novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, journalist, talkshow host, politician, and one of Russia's most widely known feminists in the 1990s.-Early life:... (born 1957)
	Mikhail Artsybashev Mikhail Artsybashev Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev ; was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism... (1878–1927)	Sanin Sanin (novel) Sanin is the novel by Russian writer Mikhail Artsybashev. It did have an interesting existing history being written by a 26 year old writer in 1904 - at the pick of the varied changes in Russian society and published and criticized in 1907, the year of one of the most horrific political reactions in... Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution
	Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001)	Queen Fish Sad Detective Sad Detective The Sad Detective is a story of notable Russian writer Viktor Astafyev. The novel was firstly published in January 1986 issue of Oktyabr magazine. The book shows the urban life in stagnation-era Soviet Union as seen by the protagonist, Russian policeman Soshnin. Main topics of the Sad Detective... To Live Your Life
	Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925)	Ninochka

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	Isaak Babel (1894–1940)	Red Cavalry Red Cavalry Red Cavalry is a collection of short stories by Russian author Isaac Babel about the 1st Cavalry Army. The stories take place during the Polish-Soviet war and are based on Babel's own diary, which he maintained when he was a journalist assigned to the Semyon Budyonny's First Cavalry Army.First... Odessa Tales
	Grigory Baklanov Grigory Baklanov Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov was a Russian novelist and editor, well known for his novels about World War II and as the editor of the literary monthly Znamya during the time of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.-Biography:Baklanov was born Grigory Yakovlevich Friedman in Voronezh... (1923–2009)	The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive
	Natalya Baranskaya Natalya Baranskaya Natalya Vladimirovna Baranskaya was a Soviet writer of short stories or novellas. She was born in 1908 in Russia, and graduated in 1929 from Moscow State University with degrees in philology and ethnology. After the war, while she raised two children alone since her husband was killed in 1943, she... (1908–2004)	A Week Like Any Other
	Pavel Bazhov Pavel Bazhov Pavel Petrovich Bazhov was a Russian writer.Bazhov is best known for his collection of fairy-tale stories The Malachite Casket , based on the Urals folklore and published in the Soviet Union in 1939. In 1944, the translation of the collection into English was published in New York and London... (1879–1950)	The Malachite Casket
	Alexander Bek (1903–1972)	And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor
	Andrei Bely Andrei Bely Andrei Bely was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev , a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. His novel Petersburg was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as one of the four greatest novels of the 20th century.-Biography:... (1880–1934)	Petersburg Petersburg (novel) Petersburg or St. Petersburg is the title of Andrei Bely's masterpiece, a Symbolist work that foreshadows Joyce's Modernist ambitions. For various reasons the novel never received much attention and was not translated into English until 1959 by John Cournos, over 45 years after it was written,... Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove
	Alexander Belyayev (1884–1942)	Ariel Amphibian Man Amphibian Man Amphibian Man is perhaps the best-known novel by Alexander Beliaev, a Soviet Russian science fiction writer. It was published in 1928.The book tells a story of a young man named Ichtiandr who as a child received a life-saving transplant - a set of shark gills...
	Nina Berberova Nina Berberova Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.-Biographical Sketch:... (1901–1993)	The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness
	Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837)	The Test On Bivouac
	Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976)
	Andrei Bitov Andrei Bitov Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov is a prominent Russian writer. Many consider him among the foremost Russian writers of the late 20th century.Among the novels that solidified his reputation are: Flying-Away Monakhov, Life in Windy Weather, Pushkin House, Captive of the Caucasus, and The Monkey Link.Bitov... (born 1937)	Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus
	Nikolay Blagoveshchensky Nikolay Blagoveshchensky Nikolay Alexandrovich Blagoveshchensky , , was a Russian writer and journalist.-Early life:... (1837–1889)	Before the Dawn
	Pyotr Boborykin Pyotr Boborykin -Biography:Boborykin was born into the family of a landowner. He studied at Kazan State University and the Dorpat University, but he never completed his education. He made ​​his debut as a playwright in 1860. In 1863-1864 he published an autobiographical novel, The Pathway... (1836-1921)	China Town
	Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Bogdanov Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov –7 April 1928, Moscow) was a Russian physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity.... (1873–1928)	Red Star Red Star (novel) Red Star is Alexander Bogdanov's 1908 science fiction novel about a communist utopia on Mars. Set in early Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and on socialist Mars, the novel tells the story of Leonid, a scientist-revolutionary who travels to Mars to learn and experience their socialist system...
	Vladimir Bogomolov Vladimir Bogomolov Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov was a Soviet writer.When Bogomolov was still in school the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II. He joined the Army after completing only seven grades. He started the war as a private; when the war was over, he had a company under his command. He was wounded and... (1926–2003)	Ivan Ivan (short story) Ivan is a 1957 short story written by Vladimir Bogomolov. The story relates the experiences of a 12-year-old orphan named Ivan Bondarev during World War II. The story was adapted into a successful film in 1962, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.... The Moment of Truth
	Yuri Bondarev Yuri Bondarev -Biography:Bondarev took part in World War II as an artillery officer and became a member of the CPSU in 1944. He graduated in 1951 from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute... (born 1924)	Silence The Shore The Hot Snow
	Leonid Borodin Leonid Borodin Leonid Ivanovich Borodin was a Russian novelist and journalist. Born in Irkutsk, Borodin was a Christian and a Soviet dissident. In the 1960s he belonged to the anti-Communist All-Russian Social-Christian Union... (born 1938)	Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief
	Valery Bryusov Valery Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.-Biography:... (1873–1924)	The Fiery Angel The Fiery Angel (novel) The Fiery Angel is a novel by Valery Bryusov of 1908. Set in sixteenth century Germany it depicts a love-triangle between Renata, a passionate young woman, Ruprecht,a knight and Madiel, the fiery Angel. The novel tells the story of Ruprecht's attempts to win the love of Renata whose spiritual... The Republic of the Southern Cross
	Yury Buida Yury Buida Yury Vasilyevich Buida is a Russian author. He was born in Znamensk in the Kaliningrad region of Russia. In 1994 his novel The Zero Train was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize... (born 1954)	The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor
	Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on... (1891–1940)	The White Guard The White Guard The White Guard is a novel by 20th century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita.-History:... The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a... Heart of a Dog Heart of a Dog Heart of a Dog , a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, is a biting satire of the New Soviet man written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when Communism appeared to be weakening in the Soviet Union.... The Fatal Eggs The Fatal Eggs The Fatal Eggs is a science-fiction novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet novelist and playwright whose most famous work is The Master and Margarita. It was written in 1924 and first published in 1925...
	Kir Bulychev Kir Bulychev Kir Bulychev or Bulychov was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mojeiko , who was a Soviet and Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965... (1934–2003)	Half a Life Half a Life (Kir Bulychev) Half a Life is an collection of science fiction short stories by Russian novelist Kir Bulychev.-Content:The longest of the stories is also called Half a Life and tells the story of a Russian woman kidnapped by an alien spacecraft in the years following the second world war... Those Who Survive Earth and Elsewhere Alice, Girl from the Future Alice, Girl from the Future Alice, Girl of the Future, also known as Alice, the Girl from Earth, is a collection of science fiction stories for children by Kir Bulychev, published in 2002...
	Ivan Bunin (1870–1953)	Dry Valley Dry Valley (Ivan Bunin novel) Dry Valley is a short novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, first published in the April 1912 issue of the Saint Petersburg Vestnik Evropy magazine... The Village The Village (Ivan Bunin novel) The Village is a short novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1909 and first published in Sovremenny Mir journal under the title Novelet... Dark Avenues Dark Avenues Dark Avenues is a collection of short stories by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin written in 1937-1944, mostly in Grasse, France, first 11 novellas of which were published in New York, USA, in 1943. The book's full version came out in 1946 in Paris... The Life of Arseniev The Life of Arseniev The Life of Arseniev is an autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin seen by many as his most important work written in emigration. The Life of Arseniev was being written and published in parts in the course of the 12 years, in 1927-1939, in France...

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	Aleksey Chapygin Aleksey Chapygin Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.-Biography:Chapygin was born in the Olonets region. His northern peasant origins are reflected in his works. His first book of stories, Those Who Keep Aloof, and his novel The White Hermitage,... (1870–1937)	Stepan Razin
	Lidia Charskaya Lidia Charskaya Lidia Alekseyevna Charskaya , January 31, 1875 – March 18, 1938, was a Russian writer and actress. Charskaya was her pseudonym; her real last name was Churilova.-Biography:... (1875–1938)	Princess Dzhavakha
	Alexander Chekhov Alexander Chekhov Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov , , was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist, and the elder brother of Anton Chekhov.-Biography:... (1855–1913)
	Anton Chekhov Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics... (1860–1904)	The Lady with the Dog The Bet The Black Monk The Black Monk (short story) "The Black Monk" is a short story by Anton Chekhov, written in 1894 while Chekhov was living in the village of Melikhove. The story tells of two tragic years in the life of scholar and artist Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin.-Plot:...
	Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)	What Is to Be Done?
	Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932)	The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits
	Lydia Chukovskaya Lydia Chukovskaya Lydia Korneievna Chukovskaya was a Soviet writer and poet. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet totalitarianism, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov... (1907–1996)	Sofia Petrovna Sofia Petrovna Sofia Petrovna is a novella by Russian author Lydia Chukovskaya, written in the late 1930s in the Soviet Union. It is notable as one of the few surviving accounts of the Great Purge actually written during the purge era.-Synopsis:...
	Georgy Chulkov Georgy Chulkov Georgy Ivanovich Chulkov was a Russian Symbolist poet, editor, writer and critic. In 1906 he created and popularized the theory of Mystical Anarchism.-Biography:... (1879–1939)

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	Yuli Daniel Yuli Daniel Yuli Markovich Daniel was a Soviet dissident writer, poet, translator and political prisoner.He frequently wrote under the pseudonyms Nikolay Arzhak and Yu. Petrov .-Early life and World War II:... (1925–1988)	This is Moscow Speaking
	Grigory Danilevsky Grigory Danilevsky -Life:Born into the family of an impoverished landowner, Petr Ivanovich Danilevsky, in the Izyumsky district of Sloboda Ukraine, Grigory was educated in the Moscow Dvoryansky institut from 1841 to 1846, then studied law at Saint Petersburg University... (1829–1890)	Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova
	Grigoriy Demidovtsev Grigoriy Demidovtsev Grigoriy Demidovtsev is the pen name of Grigoriy Anatolyevich Petrov , a Russian fiction writer and a playwright... (born 1960)
	Valentina Dmitryeva Valentina Dmitryeva Valentina Iovovna Dmitryeva was a Russian/Soviet writer, teacher, medical doctor and revolutionary.-Early life:... (1859–1947)	Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman
	Leonid Dobychin Leonid Dobychin Leonid Ivanovich Dobychin ) was a Russian writer.- Early life :The author's father was Ivan Andrianovich Dobychin , who in 1896 moved the family to Dvinsk ; his mother, Anna Aleksandrovna, was a well-known midwife in Dvinsk. Leonid had two younger brothers and two sisters... (1894-1936)	The Town of N Encounters with Lise
	Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978)	The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities
	Vlas Doroshevich Vlas Doroshevich Vlas Mikhailovich Doroshevich , born April 17, 1864 – died February 22, 1922, was one of Russia's most popular and widely read journalists, and a novelist, essayist, drama critic, and short story writer.-Early life:... (1864–1922)	Legends and Stories of the East
	Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Lyubov Fyodorovna Dostoyevskaya was a Russian writer, memoirist and a second daughter of famous writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna. Their first, Sofiya, was born in 1868 and died the same year.Dostoyevskaya was a nervous child and cried a lot... (1869–1926)	The Emigrant
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881)	Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his... The Idiot The Possessed The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880...
	Mikhail Dostoyevsky Mikhail Dostoyevsky Mikhail Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky , , was a Russian short story writer, publisher, literary critic and an elder brother of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The two of them were only a year apart in age and spent childhood and youth together... (1820–1864)
	Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990)	The Zone Affiliate Affiliate (novel) Affiliate is a novel by the Russian writer Sergei Dovlatov. It was written in 1990 and first published in America.-Plot introduction:...
	Alexander Druzhinin Alexander Druzhinin Alexander Vasilyevich Druzhinin , , was a Russian writer, translator, and magazine editor.-Biography:... (1824–1864)	Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich
	Vladimir Dudintsev Vladimir Dudintsev Vladimir Dimitrievich Dudintsev was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer who gained fame for his 1956 novel, Not by Bread Alone, published at the time of the Khruschev Thaw.... (1918–1998)	White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone Not by Bread Alone Not by Bread Alone is a 1956 novel by the Soviet author Vladimir Dudintsev. The novel, published in installments in the journal Novy Mir, was a sensation in the USSR...

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	Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Ehrenburg Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, journalist, translator, and cultural figure.Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist - in particular, as a... (1891–1967)	The Thaw The Spring The Storm The Fall of Paris
	Sergey Elpatyevsky Sergey Elpatyevsky Sergey Yakovlovich Elpatyevsky , November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian writer and doctor.-Early life:Elpatyevsky was born in the village of Novoselki-Kudrino, Vladimir Province, into the family of a village priest. He studied at a religious school, and, after graduating in 1868,... (1854–1933)	Pity Me! The Homeless Ones
	Asar Eppel Asar Eppel -Biography:Eppel was born in Ostankino, a suburb of Moscow. He studied architecture at the Institute of Civil Engineering. He worked as a translator in the Soviet Union, being unable to publish his fictional works under the Soviet Government... (born 1935)	The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches
	Victor Erofeyev Victor Erofeyev Victor Vladimirovich Erofeyev is a Russian writer. As son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat Vladimir Erofeyev, he spent some of his childhood in Paris, which accounts for why much of his work has been translated from Russian into French, while comparatively little has reached English.Erofeyev... (born 1947)	Russian Beauty Russian beauty Russian Beauty - is a novel written by Victor Erofeyev, released in 1990 and translated into more than 20 languages. At first it was published in France under the name «La Belle de Moscou» .... Life with an Idiot
	Alexander Ertel Alexander Ertel Alexander Ivanovich Ertel , , was a Russian novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Ertel was born near Voronezh, where his father was a Russified German estate agent. He never completed school, and was largely self-educated. He published his first collection of stories called Notes from the... (1855–1908)	The Specialist A Greedy Peasant
	Mikhail Evstafiev Mikhail Evstafiev Mikhail Aleksandrovich Evstafiev , is a Russian artist, photographer, and writer.He began painting and photographing at an early age. His mother, grandmother and great grandfather — all prominent Russian sculptors — inspired him to develop his own style in art... (born 1963)	Two Steps from Heaven Two Steps From Heaven Two Steps From Heaven is a novel by Russian author Mikhail Evstafiev.-Plot summary:The events of the novel take place in the mid-1980s during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and soon after the troop withdrawal, back in the then Soviet Union...

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	Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956)	The Rout The Young Guard
	Konstantin Fedin Konstantin Fedin -Biography:Born in Saratov of humble origins, Fedin studied in Moscow and Germany and was interned there during World War I. After his release he worked as an interpreter in the first Soviet embassy in Berlin... (1892–1977)	Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer
	Olga Forsh Olga Forsh -Early life:Forsh was born in the fortress at Gunib, in Dagestan, the daughter of a major general in the Russian Imperial Army. Her father met her mother, Nina Shakhetdinova, an Azerbaijanian, while he was stationed in the Caucasus. Nina died when Olga was very young... (1873–1961)	Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom
	Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926)	Chapayev Vasily Chapayev Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.-Biography:...

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	Arkady Gaidar Arkady Gaidar Arkady Petrovich Golikov Gaidar was born in the town of Lgov in Imperial Russia, now in Kursk Oblast, Russia, to a family of teachers. Gaidar spent his childhood in Arzamas. In August 1918, Gaidar became a member of the Bolsheviks, volunteering for the Red Army in December of that year, still aged... (1904–1941)	Chuk and Gek Chuk and Gek Chuk and Gek is a story written by the famous Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar . It was adapted as a film in 1953, directed by Ivan Lukinsky.-External links:* at www.sovlit.com... The Blue Cup The Blue Cup The Blue Cup is a Russian language short story written by famous Soviet children's author Arkady Gaidar . Svetlana, the central figure of the story, is the "six and half year-old" daughter of a Soviet couple leading a happy and comfortable life.... Timur and his Gang
	Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (Russian: Никола́й Гео́ргиевич Га́рин-Михайло́вский, was a Russian writer and essayist, locating engineer and railroad constructor.... (1852–1906)	Practical Training
	Vsevolod Garshin Vsevolod Garshin Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin ; was a Russian author of short stories.- Life :When Garshin was seven years old, he witnessed his father commit suicide.During the Russo-Turkish War, Garshin,... (1855–1888)	Four Days The Red Flower
	Yuri German Yuri German Yuri Pavlovich German was a Soviet Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.- Life :German was born in Riga and accompanied his father, an artillery officer, during the Civil War. He graduated from high school in Kursk and studied at the Technical School of Performing Arts in... (1910-1967)	Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve
	Anatoly Gladilin Anatoly Gladilin Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin is a Russian writer and poet who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and has since lived in Paris.... (born 1935)	Moscow Racetrack
	Fyodor Gladkov Fyodor Gladkov Fyodor Vasilyevich Gladkov was a Soviet Socialist realist writer born on in Chernavka, Saratov gubernia to a family of Old Believers. He died on December 20, 1958 in Moscow. Gladkov joined a Communist group in 1904, and in 1905 went to Tiflis and was arrested there for revolutionary activities.... (1883–1958)	Cement Cement (novel) Cement is a Russian novel by Fyodor Gladkov . Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet Socialist Realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction in the Soviet Union... Restless Youth
	Dmitry Glukhovsky Dmitry Glukhovsky Dmitry A. Glukhovsky is a professional Russian author and journalist. Glukhovsky started in 2002 by publishing his first novel, Metro 2033, on his own website to be viewed for free. The novel has later become an interactive experiment, drawing in many readers, and has since been made into a video... (born 1979)	Metro 2033 Metro 2033 (book) Metro 2033 is a novel written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky.-History:Some twenty years after a nuclear war, only a few thousands of people survive in the metro...
	Pyotr Gnedich Pyotr Gnedich Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich , known also as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theater entrepreneur and art history scholar.He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich... (1855-1925)	The Burden of this World
	Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism... (1809–1852)	Dikanka Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty two. He put his early impressions and... Taras Bulba Taras Bulba Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novel by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack, Taras Bulba, and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap. Taras’ sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home... The Overcoat The Overcoat "The Overcoat" is the title of a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, thus spawning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story has been... Dead Souls Dead Souls Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol...
	Ivan Goncharov Ivan Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov .- Biography :Ivan Goncharov was born in Simbirsk ; his father was a wealthy grain merchant and respected official who was elected mayor of Simbirsk several times... (1812–1891)	A Common Story Oblomov Oblomov Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature... The Precipice
	Maxim Gorky Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:... (1868–1936)	Mother Through Russia The Artamonov Business Twenty-six Men and a Girl Twenty-six Men and a Girl "Twenty-six Men and a Girl" is a short story written by the Russian writer Maxim Gorky in 1899, and is one of his most famous.It is a pioneering story of Social Realism , and is a story of lost ideals. Twenty-six men labor in a cellar, making kringles in an effective prison, looked down on by all...
	Nina Gorlanova Nina Gorlanova Nina Viktorovna Gorlanova is a modern short-story writer and novelist who has been living in a provincial Russian city Perm. Perm was depicted as 'Youryatin' in Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago.-Biography:... (born 1947)
	Daniil Granin Daniil Granin Daniil Alexandrovich Granin is an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute... (born 1919)	Into the Storm Those Who Seek
	Dmitry Grigorovich Dmitry Grigorovich - Early life :Grigorovich was born in Simbirsk, where his family were members of the landed gentry. His father was Russian and his mother French. From 1832 to 1835 he studied at several French and German private schools in Moscow... (1822–1900)	The Fishermen
	Alexander Grin Alexander Grin Alexander Grin was a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor... (1880–1932)	Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure
	Isabella Grinevskaya Isabella Grinevskaya Isabella Grinevskaya was the pen name of Berta Friedberg, daughter of the author Abraham Shalom Friedberg and the first wife of Mordechai Spector.... (1864–1944)
	Vasily Grossman Vasily Grossman Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels... (1905–1964)	The Road Life and Fate Forever Flowing
	Elena Guro Elena Guro Elena Genrikhovna Guro was a Russian Futurist painter, playwright, poet, and writer of fiction.-Early life:Guro was born in St. Petersburg on January 10, 1877. Her father was Genrikh Stepanovich Guro, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army of French descent. Her mother Anna Mikhailovna... (1887-1913)	Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky
	Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky Sergey Ivanovich Gusev-Orenburgsky was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:... (1867–1963)	The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children

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	Alexander Herzen Alexander Herzen Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism", and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism... (1812–1870)	Who is to Blame?

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	Ilf and Petrov Ilf and Petrov Ilya Ilf Ilya Ilf Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg and Evgeny or Yevgeni Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev or Katayev were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s... Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942)	The Twelve Chairs The Twelve Chairs The Twelve Chairs is a classic satirical novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1928. Its main character Ostap Bender reappears in the book's sequel The Little Golden Calf.-Plot:... The Little Golden Calf The Little Golden Calf The Little Golden Calf is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1931. Its main character Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel of the authors called The Twelve Chairs...
	Fazil Iskander Fazil Iskander Fazil Abdulovich Iskander is arguably the most famous Abkhaz writer, renowned in the former Soviet Union for his vivid descriptions of Caucasian life, mostly written in Russian... (born 1929)	Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules
	Alexei Ivanov Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov Alexei Viktorovich Ivanov is a Russian writer.Ivanov was born in Gorky into a family of shipbuilding engineers. In 1971 the family moved to Perm, where he grew up. In 1987, he entered Ural State University as a journalism student... (born 1969)
	Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod Ivanov Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov was a notable Soviet writer praised for the colourful adventure tales set in the Asiatic part of Russia during the Civil War.-Biography:... (1895–1963)	Fertility The Child

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	Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826)	Poor Liza
	Nikolay Karazin Nikolay Karazin Nikolay Nikolaevich Karazin was a Russian military officer, painter and writer. He is mostly known for his paintings depicting wars and exotic places.-Biography:... (1842–1908)	The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South
	Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky Nikolay Elpidiforovich Karonin-Petropavlovsky , October 17, 1853 – May 24, 1892, was a Russian writer. His real name was Nikolay Petropavlovsky; his pen name was S. Karonin. A number of later Russian sources refer to him as Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky.-Biography:Nikolay Petropavlovsky was... (1853–1892)	First Storm
	Vladimir Karpov Vladimir Karpov Vladimir Vasilyevich Karpov was a Soviet writer of historical novels and public figure. He was awarded the hero of the Soviet Union for bravery in World War II.... (1922–2010)	The Commander
	Anna Kashina Anna Kashina Anna S. Kashina, Ph.D. is a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, as well as a writer. Originally from Moscow, Russia, Kashina moved to the United States in 1994 and has been living there ever since....	In the Name of the Queen
	Ivan Kataev Ivan Kataev -Biography:Kataev was born in Moscow. In 1919 he joined the Red Army and the CPSU and participated in the fighting against Anton Denikin. After leaving the military Kataev studied at the Economic Department of Moscow University.... (1902-1937)	The Wife Immortality
	Valentin Kataev Valentin Kataev Valentin Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. Kataev is credited with suggesting the idea for the Twelve Chairs to his... (1897–1986)	Time Forward! Time, Forward! (novel) Time, Forward! is a novel by Valentin Katayev published in 1933. The book takes place over the course of one day and describes the attempts of a group of shock workers to break the record for most batches of concrete mixed in a day.The novel was adapted by Katayev into a screenplay for a 1965... The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe
	Veniamin Kaverin Veniamin Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin was a Soviet writer associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers. The immunologist Lev Zilber was his older brother, and the critic Yury Tynyanov was his brother-in-law.... (1902–1989)	Open Book The Two Captains The Two Captains The Two Captains is a novel written by Soviet author Veniamin Kaverin between 1938 and 1944. It is Kaverin's best known work and is considered one of the most popular works of Soviet literature, winning the USSR State Prize in 1946 being reissued 42 times in 25 years... The Unknown Artist
	Emmanuil Kazakevich Emmanuil Kazakevich Emmanuil Genrikhovich Kazakevich was a Soviet author, poet and playwright of Jewish extraction, writing in Russian and Yiddish.-Early life:... (1913–1962)	Star: A Story The Blue Notebook
	Yury Kazakov (1927–1982)	Going To Town Adam and Eve
	Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon Yuri Khanon is a pen name of Yuri Feliksovich Soloviev-Savoyarov , a Russian composer. Prior to 1993, he wrote under a pen name Yuri Khanin, but later transformed it into Yuri Khanon, spelling it in a pre-1918 Russian style as ХанонЪ. Khanon was born on Juny 16, 1965 in Leningrad... (born 1965)	Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories
	Daniil Kharms Daniil Kharms Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. One of his pseudonyms, which was signed in Latin alphabet, was Daniel Charms.- Life :... (1905–1942)	The Old Woman
	Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya Nadezhda Dmitryevna Khvoshchinskaya , May 20, 1824 – June 8, 1889, was a Russian novelist, poet, literary critic and translator. Her married name was Zayonchkovskaya. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Krestovsky... (1824–1889)	The Boarding School Girl
	Marusya Klimova (born 1961)
	Vsevolod Kochetov Vsevolod Kochetov Vsevolod Anissimovich Kochetov was a Soviet Russian writer and cultural functionary. He has been described as a party dogmatist and as a classic of socialist realism... (1912-1973)	The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then?
	Ivan Kokorev Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev Ivan Timofeevich Kokorev was a Russian writer.The son of a freed serf, Kokorev's stories and essays began appearing in the 1840s, but he did not become well known until he began his association with the journal Moskvityanin in 1849... (1825–1853)
	Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. In 1919 she became the first female government minister in Europe... (1872–1952)	Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees
	Vladimir Korolenko Vladimir Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh description of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia... (1853–1921)	Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician
	Sofia Kovalevskaya Sofia Kovalevskaya Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to... (1859–1891)	Nihilist Girl
	Vadim Kozhevnikov Vadim Kozhevnikov Vadim Mikhaylovich Kozhevnikov was a Soviet writer. His daughter Nadezhda Kozhevnikova is also a writer.-Biography:Vadim Kozevnikov was born in the Siberian town of Narym , where his revolutionary-minded father had been sent as an internal exile by the authorities of the Russian Empire.Kozhevnikov... (1909–1984)	Shield and Sword
	Nadezhda Kozhevnikova Nadezhda Kozhevnikova Nadezhda Vadimovna Kozhevnikova is a Russian writer and journalist, and the daughter of Soviet writer Vadim Kozhevnikov.-Biography:In her youth, Kozhevnikova devoted herself to music. She studied in the musical school attached to the Moscow Conservatory. Her interest in literature, however, led... (born 1949)	Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna
	Eugene Kozlovsky Eugene Kozlovsky Eugene Antonovich Kozlovsky is a Russian writer, journalist, theatre director and film director. He lives in Moscow.- Tales :* Moskvaburgskiye povesti / Tales of Moscowburg... (born 1946)
	Vsevolod Krestovsky Vsevolod Krestovsky Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovsky , February 23, 1840 – January 30, 1895, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Krestovsky came from an old family of Ukrainian gentry. In 1857 he enrolled in the Historico-Philological faculty of St Petersburg University... (1840-1895)	Knights of Industry
	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky was a Russian and Soviet short-story writer who described himself as being "known for being unknown"; the bulk of his writings were published posthumously.-Life:... (1887–1950)	Quadraturin
	Anatoly Kudryavitsky Anatoly Kudryavitsky Anthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow on 17 August 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky , is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.-Biography:... (born 1954)
	Aleksandr Kuprin Aleksandr Kuprin Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin , was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel . Other well-known works include Moloch , Olesya , Junior Captain Rybnikov , Emerald , and The Garnet Bracelet... (1870–1938)	The Duel Yama the Pit The Bracelet of Garnets
	Andrey Kurkov Andrey Kurkov Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian. He is the author of 13 novels and 5 books for children. His work is currently translated into 25 languages, including English, Japanese, French, Chinese, Swedish and Hebrew... (born 1961)	Death and the Penguin Death and the Penguin Death and the Penguin is a novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. Originally published in 1996 in Russian , it was eventually translated and published in English in 2001... Penguin Lost Penguin Lost Penguin Lost is a novel by Andrey Kurkov. Originally published in 1997 in Russian , it was translated and published in English in 2004. It is the sequel to the author's novel Death and the Penguin.-Summary:...
	Ivan Kushchevsky Ivan Kushchevsky Ivan Afanasyevich Kushchevsky , born December 24, 1847 – died August 12, 1876, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Kushchevsky was born in Barnaul, Siberia where his father was a minor official. He received his early education at the Tomsk gymnasium. He went to Saint Petersburg in the mid 1860s... (1847–1876)	Nikolai Negorev
	Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936)	Wings
	Anatoly Kuznetsov Anatoly Kuznetsov Anatoly Vasilievich Kuznetsov was a Russian language Soviet writer who described his experiences in German-occupied Kiev during WWII in his internationally acclaimed novel Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel... (1929-1979)	Babi Yar Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel is an internationally acclaimed documentary novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov about the Babi Yar massacre...

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	Lazar Lagin Lazar Lagin Lazar Yosifovych Lagin was the pen name of Lazar Ginzburg , a Soviet satirist and children's writer.... (1903–1979)	The Old Genie Hottabych
	Yulia Latynina Yulia Latynina Yulia Leonidovna Latynina is a Russian journalist, writer and radio host. She works at the radio station Echo of Moscow. She also writes for Novaya Gazeta and The Moscow Times.-Writer, journalist and radio host:... (born 1966)	The Insider The Insider (Yulia Latynina novel) The Insider is the final book of the science fiction literary cycle Empire of Weia by Russian writer Yulia Latynina.This novel was published in 1999 in Olma-Press .-Main characters:...
	Boris Lavrenyov Boris Lavrenyov Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov , born July 5 , 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright.... (1891–1953)	The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart
	Ivan Lazhechnikov Ivan Lazhechnikov Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov , September 25, 1792 – July 8, 1869, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Lazhechnikov was born into the family of a rich merchant in Kolomna in 1792. He received a well-rounded education from private tutors at home... (1792–1869)	The Heretic
	Leonid Leonov Leonid Leonov Leonid Maximovich Leonov was a Soviet novelist and playwright. He has been dubbed the 20th-century Dostoyevsky for the deep psychological torment of his prose.-Early life:... (1899–1995)	The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Russian Forest
	Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest... (1814–1841)	A Hero of Our Time A Hero of Our Time A Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus...
	Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Leskov Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer, who also wrote under the pseudonym M. Stebnitsky. Praised for his unique writing style and innovative experiments in form, held in high esteem by Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky among others, Leskov is... (1831–1895)	Lefty The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" , The Tale of the Crosseyed Lefthander from Tula and the Steal Flea or simply Levsha , sometimes called The Lefthander, Lefty, The Steel Flea or The Left-handed Craftsman is a well-known 1881 skaz by Nikolai Leskov... The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
	Alexander Levitov Alexander Levitov Alexander Ivanovich Levitov , born August 1, 1835 – died January 16, 1877, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Levitov was born in the village of Dobroye, in Tambov Governorate, where his father was a sexton. He learned to read and write in a school for peasant children set up by his father in... (1835–1877)	Leatherhide the Cobbler
	Nikolay Leykin Nikolay Leykin -Biography:Leykin was born in Saint Petersburg into a merchant family. The merchant class was the subject of the majority of his fiction. His popular work Our Folk Abroad, set in Paris, which went through twenty-five editions, was a light satire on the ignorance and boorishness of Russian business... (1841–1906)	Our Folk Abroad
	Eduard Limonov Eduard Limonov Eduard Limonov is Russian writer and political dissident, and is the founder and leader of radical National Bolshevik Party. An opponent of Vladimir Putin, Limonov is one of leaders of Other Russia political bloc.-Early life:... (born 1943)	It's Me, Eddie His Butler's Story Memoir of a Russian Punk
	Dmitri Lipskerov Dmitri Lipskerov Dmitri Mikhailovich Lipskerov is an acclaimed Russian writer and dramatist. He emerged as a popular author in the late 1990s with two novels: The Forty Years of Changzhoeh and The Gottlieb Space... (born 1964)
	Sergey Lukyanenko Sergey Lukyanenko Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer... (born 1968)	Night Watch Night Watch (Russian novel) Night Watch is a fantasy novel by Russian writer Sergei Lukyanenko published in 1998... Day Watch Day Watch Day Watch , is a 2006 Russian dark fantasy action film marketed as "the first film of the year", opened in theatres across Russia on January 1, 2006, the U.S. on June 1, 2007 and the UK on October 5, 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast... Twilight Watch Last Watch
	Lev Lunts Lev Lunts Lev Natanovich Lunts was a Russian/Jewish writer, playwright, critic, translator, and essayist. He was a member of the Serapion Brothers literary group.-Biography:... (1901–1924)	Native Land

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	Grigori Machtet Grigori Machtet Grigori Alexandrovich Machtet was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. He is the author of the well-known song «Tormented to death by a heavy captivity».... (1852–1901)
	Vladimir Makanin Vladimir Makanin Vladimir Semyonovich Makanin is a Russian writer. - Life :Makanin is a writer of novels and short stories. He graduated from Moscow State University and worked as a mathematician in the Military Academy until the early 1960s. In 1963 he took a course in scriptwriting, and then worked in the... (born 1937)	Baize-Covered Table With Decanter
	Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912)	Verotchka's Tales A Gold Nugget The Privalov Fortune
	Anatoly Marienhof Anatoly Marienhof Anatoly Borisovich Marienhof or Mariengof 1897 — 24 April 1962) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of Imaginism. Now he is mostly remembered for his memoirs that depict Russian literary life of the 1920s and his friendship with Sergei Yesenin.- Biography... (1897–1962)	Cynics
	Alexandra Marinina Alexandra Marinina Alexandra Marinina is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories.-Biography:... (born 1957)
	Boleslav Markevich Boleslav Markevich Boleslav Mikhailovich Markevich 1884, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic of Polish origin; author of a number of popular novels, including: Marina of the Aluy Rog , A Quarter of a Century Ago , The Turning Point and The Void .-Biography:Boleslav... (1822–1884)	The Turning Point
	Vladilen Mashkovtsev Vladilen Mashkovtsev Vladilen Ivanovich Mashkovtsev was a Russian poet, writer and journalist. He wrote 15 books published in the Urals and in Moscow.- Novels :* Zolotoy tsvetok — odolen / Gold Flower Odolen* Vremya krasnogo drakona / The Red Dragon's Time... (1929–1997)
	Pavel Melnikov Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov Pavel Ivanovich Melnikov was a Russian writer, known for his opera magna In the Forests and On the Hills, which describe the unique life of Transvolga and its dialects.... (1818–1883)
	Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, , 1865, St Petersburg – December 9, 1941, Paris) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist movement, Merezhkovsky – with his poet wife Zinaida... (1865–1941)	Christ and Antichrist (trilogy)
	Daniil Mordovtsev Daniil Mordovtsev -Biography:Mordovtsev's father was a Zaporozhian Cossack and an estate manager. Mordovtsev spent his childhood in Sloboda Ukraine, where he learned the Russian language in school. He graduated from the faculty of history and philology at St. Petersburg University in 1854.Mordovtsev's literary debut... (1830-1905)	The Tsar and the Hetman
	Viktor Muyzhel Viktor Muyzhel -Biography:Muyzhel was born in the village of Uza, in what is now Pskov Oblast. His father was a minor official. Muyzhel's first published work appeared in 1903. The Russian countryside is the setting for most of his works of fiction, including his novel The Year . He was influenced by Narodnik... (1880-1924)	The Year
	Viktor Muravin Viktor Muravin Viktor Muravin is a Soviet dissident and author, best known for his novel Aurora Borealis, also published under the title The Diary of Vikenty Angarov. Born in Vladivostok, in his youth he joined the Pioneers and the Komsomol. At first an ardent communist, he worked as a horse-wrangler and... (born 1929)	The Diary of Vikenty Angarov

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	Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist... (1899–1977)	Mary The Defense The Defense The Defense is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov during his emigration in Berlin and published in 1930.-Plot summary:The plot concerns the title character, Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin. As a boy, he is considered unattractive, withdrawn, and an object of ridicule by his classmates... The Gift Lolita Lolita Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...
	Yuri Nagibin Yuri Nagibin Yuri Markovich Nagibin was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and novelist.He is best known for his screenplays, but he also has written several novels and novellas, and many short stories. He is known for his novel The Red Tent that he later adapted for the screenplay for the film of the same name... (1924–1994)	The Pipe Arise and Walk
	Vasily Narezhny Vasily Narezhny Vasily Trofimovich Narezhny was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer renowned for his satiricial depiction of provincial mores in the vein of the 18th-century picaresque novel. His most famous novel is A Russian Gil Blas , a rather coarse imitation of Lesage's work... (1780–1825)	A Russian Gil Blas Gil Blas Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735. It is considered to be the last masterpiece of the picaresque genre.-Plot summary:...
	Nikolay Naumov Nikolay Naumov -Biography:Nikolay was born in 1838, in Tobolsk.He studied at Saint Petersburg University, and in 1859 his works began to be published in local papers. In 1861 he participated in student disturbances associated with reforms in the Russian empire, for which he was expelled from the University. He... (1838-1901)	Strength Breaks the Straw
	Andrei Navrozov Andrei Navrozov Andrei Navrozov, poet and writer, was born in Moscow in 1956, grandson of the playwright Andrei Navrozov , son of the essayist and translator Lev Navrozov .- Early life :... (born 1956)
	Viktor Nekrasov Viktor Nekrasov Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov was a Russian writer, journalist and editor.-Biography:Nekrasov was born in Kiev and graduated with a degree in architecture in 1936. Between 1937 and 1941, he was an actor and set designer with the Kiev Russian Drama Theater... (1911–1987)	Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna
	Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko , 1845, Tiflis , Russian Empire - died September 18, 1936, Prague, Chechoslovakia) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko... (1845-1936)	Peasant Tales of Russia
	Alexander Neverov Alexander Neverov Alexander Sergeyevich Neverov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer and teacher. Neverov was his pseudonym; his real last name was Skobelev.-Early life:... (1886–1923)	City of Bread
	Friedrich Neznansky Friedrich Neznansky Friedrich Neznansky is a popular Russian crime novelist. He is a lawyer by education, practiced law in Moscow, and was an investigator at the Moscow Prosecutor General’s office for fifteen years; his hero in most of his books, Aleksandr Turetsky, reflects that experience. Turetsky is a flawed... (born 1932)	Red Square Night Wolves
	Nikolay Nosov Nikolay Nosov Nikolai Nikolaevich Nosov was a Soviet children's literature writer, the author of a number of humorous short stories, a school novel, and the popular trilogy of fairy tale novels about the adventures of Neznaika and his friends.-Early life:... (1908–1976)	Neznaika Neznaika Dunno, or Know-Nothing is an anti-hero created by the Soviet children's writer Nikolay Nosov.Dunno, recognized by his bright blue hat, canary-yellow trousers, orange shirt, and green tie, is the title character of Nosov's world-famous trilogy, The Adventures of Dunno and his Friends , Dunno in Sun...
	Alexey Novikov-Priboy Alexey Novikov-Priboy Aleksey Silych Novikov-Priboi was the pen-name of A. S. Novikov, a ethnic Russian writer in the Soviet Union, noted for his stories with a nautical theme.-Biography:Novikov-Priboi was the second son of a peasant family from Tambov Oblast... (1877-1944)	Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons

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	Vladimir Obruchev Vladimir Obruchev Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in the study of Siberia and Central Asia. He was also one of the first Russian science fiction authors.- Scientific research :... (1863–1956)	Plutonia Plutonia (novel) Plutonia is a novel released in 1915 by Vladimir Obruchev. Is a hollow-earth-type of science fiction novel set in an underground world of rivers, lakes, volcanoes, and strange vegetation, a world which has its own sun –Pluto– and inhabited by monstrous animals and primitive people... Sannikov Land
	Olga Obukhova Olga Obukhova Olga Ivanovna Obukhova is a Russian journalist, writer and translator.Olga Obukhova is the daughter of Ivan Zamchevsky, the former Communist Party secretary of Leningrad and Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia. In 1962 she graduated from Moscow State University of International Relations... (born 1941)
	Vladimir Odoevsky Vladimir Odoevsky Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.-Life:... (1803–1869)	Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Living Corpse (Odoevsky) The Living Corpse is a Gothic novel written by Vladimir Odoevsky written in 1838 and published in 1844.Written in the first person, it is the story of Vasilii Kuz'mich Aristidov, who wakes up one morning to find himself a ghost. A work of social satire, it reads on a number of levels, and can be... The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters is an 1835 novel by Vladimir Odoevsky. It is a futuristic novel, set in the year 4338, a year before Biela's Comet was to collide with the Earth as computed in the 1820s although the comet burned up later in the nineteenth century...
	Bulat Okudzhava Bulat Okudzhava Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author song"... (1924–1997)	A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins
	Yury Olesha Yury Olesha Yury Karlovich Olesha was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered to have been one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th-century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era... (1899–1960)	Envy Three Fat Men Three Fat Men Three Fat Men written in 1924, by Yuri Olesha, was published in 1927. It was the first revolutionary fairy tale in Soviet literature. The critical reaction at first was varied. V. Boichevsky in an article "How Stories For Children Should Not Be" saw it as a "sugarcoated" presentation of revolution.... The Cherry Pit
	Nikolai Ostrovsky Nikolai Ostrovsky Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era... (1904–1936)	Born of the Storm Born of the Storm Born of the Storm is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky during Stalin's era. The novel, begun in January 1924 and concerning the Ukrainian–Soviet War, remains unfinished due to Ostrovsky's death in December 1936.... How the Steel Was Tempered How the Steel Was Tempered How the Steel Was Tempered is a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky during Joseph Stalin's era. Pavel Korchagin is the central character.- Analysis :...
	Valentin Ovechkin Valentin Ovechkin -Early life:Valentin was born in Taganrog, the son of an office employee. He studied at the Taganrog Technical School from 1913 to 1919. He began writing early, while he was still a member of the Komsomol. His first story Saveliev was published in the newspaper Bednota in 1927. Other early works... (1904-1968)	Greetings from the Front

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	Marina Palei Marina Palei Marina Anatolyevna Palei is a Russian prose-writer, scriptwriter, publicist, novelist and translator.-Life and work:... (born 1955)	Rendezvous
	Ivan Panaev Ivan Panaev Ivan Ivanovich Panaev was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist and magazine publisher.-Early life:Panaev was born into a gentry family in St Petersburg. He graduated from the Boarding School for the Nobility at Saint Petersburg State University in 1830. He began publishing his works in 1834... (1812-1862)	Lions in the Provinces
	Avdotya Panaeva Avdotya Panaeva Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva , née Bryanskaya, , was a Russian novelist, short story writer, memoirist and literary salon holder. She published much of her work under the pseudonym V. Stanitsky.-Biography:... (1820-1893)	A Woman's Lot
	Vera Panova Vera Panova -Early life:Vera was born into the family of an impoverished merchant in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Her father, Fyodor Ivanovich Panov, built canoes and yachts as a hobby, and founded two yachting clubs in Rostov. When she was five her father drowned in the Don River. After her father's death, her... (1905–1973)	Seryozha Seryozha (novel) Seryozha is a short novel by Soviet writer Vera Panova. Seryozha has also been translated as Time Walked and A Summer to Remember. Seryozha is a diminutive form of the name Sergey.-Plot:... Looking Ahead The Train Span of the Year
	Boris Pasternak Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russia, Pasternak's anthology My Sister Life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language... (1890–1960)	Doctor Zhivago Doctor Zhivago -Original creation:*Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, published in 1957**Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, a fictional character and the main protagonist of the book Doctor Zhivago-Adaptations:There are several adaptations based on the Doctor Zhivago book:... The Childhood of Luvers
	Konstantin Paustovsky Konstantin Paustovsky Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Russian Soviet writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965.-Early life:Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow. His father, descendant of the Zaporizhia Cossacks, was a railroad statistician, and was “an incurable romantic and Protestant”.... (1892–1968)	A Tale of Life (6 novel series)
	Pyotr Pavlenko Pyotr Pavlenko Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko , , was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920.-Early life:... (1899-1951)	Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son
	Oleg Pavlov Oleg Pavlov Oleg Pavlov is a prominent Russian writer, winner of the Russian Booker Prize.Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda... (born 1970)
	Karolina Pavlova Karolina Pavlova Karolina Pavlova was a 19th century Russian poet and novelist who stood out from other writers on account of her unique appreciation of exceptional rhymes and imagery.-Biography:... (1807–1893)	A Double Life
	Victor Pelevin Victor Pelevin Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist texts, fusing together elements of pop culture and esoteric philosophies... (born 1962)	Omon Ra Omon Ra Omon Ra is a short novel by the modern Russian writer Victor Pelevin, published in 1992 by the Tekst Publishing House in Moscow. It was the first novel by Pelevin, who until then was known for his short stories....
	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Petrushevskaya Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright.The Moscow-born Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, whose writing combines postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as... (born 1938)	Immortal Love
	Valentin Pikul Valentin Pikul Valentin Savvich Pikul was a popular and prolific Soviet historical novelist of Ukrainian-Russian heritage. He lived and worked in Riga.... (1928–1990)
	Boris Pilnyak Boris Pilnyak Boris Pilnyak was a Russian author. Born Boris Andreyevich Vogau in Mozhaysk, he was a major supporter of anti-urbanism and a critic of mechanized society. These views often brought him into disfavor with Communist critics... (1894–1938)	The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea
	Aleksey Pisemsky Aleksey Pisemsky Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoevsky during his lifetime, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline in the 20th century. A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was... (1821–1881)	Nina The Simpleton One Thousand Souls An Old Man's Sin
	Andrei Platonov Andrei Platonov Andrei Platonov was the pen name of Andrei Platonovich Klimentov , a Soviet author whose works anticipate existentialism. Although Platonov was a Communist, his works were banned in his own lifetime for their skeptical attitude toward collectivization and other Stalinist policies... (1899–1951)	Fro Dzhan The Foundation Pit The Foundation Pit The Foundation Pit is a gloomy symbolical and semi-satirical novel by Andrei Platonov. The plot of the novel concerns a group of workers in the early Soviet Union attempting to dig out a huge foundation pit, on the base of which a gigantic House for all Proletariat will be built...
	Boris Polevoy Boris Polevoy Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy was a notable Soviet writer. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about a Soviet World War II fighter pilot Alexei Petrovich Maresiev .... (1908–1981)	He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man
	Nikolay Pomyalovsky Nikolay Pomyalovsky - Early life :Pomyalovsky was born in St. Petersburg in 1835. His father was a deacon in the Orthodox Church in Malaya Okhta, a village on the bank of the Neva River, across from St. Petersburg. Pomyalovsky studied at the Alexander Nevsky Theological School , where his lifelong problem with... (1835–1863)	Seminary Sketches
	Ignaty Potapenko Ignaty Potapenko Ignaty Nikolayevich Potapenko , born December 30, 1856 – died May 17, 1929, was a Russian writer and playwright.-Biography:Potapenko was born in the village of Fyodorovka, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire where his father was a priest. Potapenko studied at Odessa University, and at the... (1856–1929)	A Russian Priest The General's Daughter
	Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov was a Russian writer and artist. Prigov was a dissident during the era of the Soviet Union and was briefly sent to a psychiatric hospital in 1986.... (1940–2007)	Live in Moskow
	Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975)
	Alexander Prokhanov Alexander Prokhanov Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov is a Soviet and Russian writer. He is a member of the secretariat of the Writers Union of the Russian Federation and the editor-in-chief of ultra-nationalist newspaper "Завтра" .... (born 1938)	Empire's Last Soldier
	Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837)	The Queen of Spades The Queen of Spades (story) "The Queen of Spades" is a short story by Alexander Pushkin about human avarice. Pushkin wrote the story in autumn 1833 in Boldino and it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya in March 1834... The Captain's Daughter The Captain's Daughter The Captain's Daughter is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin. It was first published in 1836 in the fourth issue of the literary journal Sovremennik. The novel is a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773-1774....

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	Aleksandr Radishchev (1749–1802)	Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow The Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow , published in 1790, was the most famous work by the Russian writer Aleksandr Nikolayevich Radishchev....
	Valentin Rasputin Valentin Rasputin Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin is a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's works depict rootless urban characters and the fight for survival of centuries-old traditional rural ways of life... (born 1937)	Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora
	Aleksey Remizov Aleksey Remizov Aleksei Mikhailovich Remizov was a Russian modernist writer whose creative imagination veered to the fantastic and bizarre. Apart from literary works, Remizov was an expert calligrapher who sought to revive this medieval art in Russia.-Biography:... (1877–1957)	The Clock The Indefatigable Cymbal
	Fyodor Reshetnikov Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov Fyodor Mikhaylovich Reshetnikov was a Russian author. In his short 29 ½ years he published to critical acclaim a number of novels dealing with the plight of the lower classes.-Early life:... (1841–1871)	The Podlipnayans
	Panteleimon Romanov Panteleimon Romanov -Biography:Romanov was born into a gentry family in the village of Petrovskoe in what is now Tula Oblast. After completing his law studies at Moscow State University, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the Russian Revolution .He... (1884-1938)	Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms
	Mikhail Roshchin Mikhail Roshchin Mikhail Mikhailovich Roshchin was a Russian playwright, screenwriter and short story writer.-Biography:Born to Mikhail N. Gibelman and Claudia Tarasovna Efimov-Tyurkin , Roshchin spent his early childhood in Sevastopol... (1933-2010)	First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti
	Dina Rubina Dina Rubina Dina Ilyinichna Rubina is a Russian-Israeli prose writer. Her most famous work is Dual Surname which was recently turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.Rubina writes in Russian.-English Translations:... (born 1953)	The Blackthorn
	Anatoly Rybakov Anatoly Rybakov Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov was a Soviet and Russian writer, the author of the anti-Stalinist Children of the Arbat tetralogy, novel Heavy Sand, and many popular children books including Adventures of Krosh, Dirk, Bronze Bird, etc... (1911–1998)	Children of the Arbat Children of the Arbat Children of the Arbat is a novel by Anatoli Rybakov that recounts the era in the Soviet Union of the build-up to the 'Congress of the Victors', the early years of the second Five Year Plan and the circumstances of the murder of Sergey Kirov prior to the beginning of the Great Purge.Principally... Fear Dust and Ashes
	Vladimir Rybakov Vladimir Rybakov Vladimir Rybakov is a Russian writer.Vladimir was born to émigré parents in Paris in 1947, lived in the Soviet Union 1956-1972, including a hitch in the Soviet army, and returned to the West in 1972, since which time he has been a journalist and a novelist with a historical bent... (born 1947)	Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans
	Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov Vyacheslav Rybakov is a well known Soviet and Russian science fiction author and an orientalist, interested in the medieval bureaucracy of China... (born 1954)	Artist The Trial Sphere
	Maria Rybakova Maria Rybakova Maria Aleksadrovna Rybakova is a Russian writer, whose works are published in multiple languages.-Life:Rybakova is the only daughter of literary critic Natalia Ivanova, deputy editor of journal Znamya, and granddaughter of Russian writer Anatoly Rybakov.She studied Classics starting at the age of... (born 1973)

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	German Sadulaev German Sadulaev German Umaralievich Sadulaev is a Chechen writer.- Biography :German Sadulaev was born in 1973, in the town of Shali, in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR, to a Chechen father and Terek Cossack mother.... (born 1973)	I am a Chechen!
	Boris Savinkov Boris Savinkov Boris Viktorovich Savinkov was a Russian writer and revolutionary terrorist... (1879–1925)	The Pale Horse What Never Happened
	Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , better known by his pseudonym Shchedrin , was a major Russian satirist of the 19th century. At one time, after the death of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov, he acted as editor of the well-known Russian magazine, the Otechestvenniye Zapiski, until it was banned by... (1826–1889)	Provincial Sketches The Golovlyov Family The History of a Town
	Genrikh Sapgir Genrikh Sapgir Genrikh Sapgir was a Russian poet and fiction writer.-Biography:He was born in Biysk to a family of a Moscow engineer on a business trip. The family returned to Moscow fairly soon.... (1928–1999)
	Sergey Semyonov Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov Sergey Terentyevich Semyonov , born March 28, 1868 – died December 3, 1922, was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:... (1868–1922)	Gluttons The Servant
	Yulian Semyonov Yulian Semyonov Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov , pen-name of Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres , was a Soviet and Russian writer of spy fiction and crime fiction.-Career:... (1931–1993)	Seventeen Instants of Spring
	Alexander Serafimovich Alexander Serafimovich Alexander Serafimovich was a Russian/Soviet writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Early life:... (1863–1949)	Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner
	Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky Sergei Nikolayevich Sergeyev-Tsensky , was a prolific Russian and Soviet writer and academician... (1875–1958)	Brusilov's Break-Through
	Marietta Shaginyan Marietta Shaginyan Marietta Sergeevna Shaginian was a Soviet writer and public activist. She was one of the outstanding communist female-authors with broad philosophical and social views.... (1888–1982)	Mess-Mend
	Varlam Shalamov Varlam Shalamov Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov , baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.-Early life:Varlam Shalamov was born in Vologda, Vologda Governorate, a Russian city with a rich culture famous for its wooden architecture, to a family of a hereditary Russian Orthodox... (1907–1982)	The Kolyma Tales The Kolyma Tales Kolyma Tales is a collection of short stories by Russian author Varlam Shalamov, about labour camp life in the Soviet Union. He began working on this book in 1954 and continued until 1973.-Background:...
	Olga Shapir Olga Shapir -Biography:Shapir was born in Oranienbaum in 1850. She was one of nine children. Her father, a peasant, served as an army clerk, for a while under the Decembrist leader Pavel Pestel. Her mother was of Swedish descent.... (1850-1916)	The Settlement
	Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952)	Deborah
	Mikhail Shishkin Mikhail Shishkin Mikhail Pavlovich Shishkin is a Russian writer. He is widely considered as one of the best contemporary Russian writers and praised for depth and complexity of his books and for his perfect command of Russian literary language.-Biography:... (born 1961)
	Vyacheslav Shishkov Vyacheslav Shishkov Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov was a Soviet and Russian writer known for his descriptions of Siberia. He was awarded the Stalin Prize posthumously .... (1873-1945)	Children of Darkness
	Ivan Shmelyov Ivan Shmelyov Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow... (1873–1950)	The Stone Age
	Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984)	Virgin Soil Upturned And Quiet Flows the Don And Quiet Flows the Don And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don is the first part of the great Don epic Tikhiy Don , written by Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940... The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea The Don Flows Home to the Sea is the second in the series of the great Don epic written by Mikhail Sholokhov. It originally appeared in serialized form between 1928 and 1940...
	Ilya Shtemler (born 1933)
	Vasily Shukshin Vasily Shukshin Vasily Makarovich Shukshin was a notable Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Upon his death, Shukshin was interred at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.-Biography:... (1929–1974)	Stories from a Siberian Village
	Konstantin Simonov Konstantin Simonov Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov was a Russian/Soviet author, known especially as a war poet.-Early years:He was born in Petrograd. His mother was born Princess Obolenskaya, of a Rurikid family. His father, an officer in the Tsar's army, left Russia after the Revolution in 1917. He died in Poland... (1915–1979)	Days and Nights The Living and the Dead
	Andrei Sinyavsky Andrei Sinyavsky Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was a Russian writer, dissident, political prisoner, emigrant, Professor of Sorbonne University, magazine founder and publisher... (1925–1997)	Fantastic Stories Fantastic Stories Fantastic Stories is a collection of six short stories written by Soviet author Andrei Sinyavsky under the pseudonym Abram Tertz between 1955 and 1961. The stories are titled: At the Circus, The Graphomaniacs, The Tenants, You and I, The Icicle and Phkents...
	Stepan Skitalets Stepan Skitalets Stepan Skitalets , , was the pen-name of Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov, a Russian/Soviet poet, writer of fiction and folk musician. The name Skitalets means "wanderer" in Russian.- Early life :... (1869–1941)	The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter
	Vasily Sleptsov Vasily Sleptsov Vasily Alekseyevich Sleptsov , , was a Russian writer and social reformer.-Biography:Sleptsov attended the medical school at Moscow University in 1855-56. He then went to Yaroslavl to try being an actor. He soon returned to Moscow, where he was in government service from 1857 to 1861-62... (1836–1878)	The Ward
	Sofia Soboleva Sofia Soboleva -Biography:Soboleva was born in Shlisselburg, where her father was an engineer. She was educated at home until the age of eight, and then sent to Madame Kamerat's Pension in St Petersburg. Soboleva began publishing her works in her early twenties. Her early story Pros and Cons was published while... (1840-1884)	Pros and Cons
	Sasha Sokolov Sasha Sokolov Sasha Sokolov is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature.... (born 1943)	A School for Fools A School for Fools A School for Fools is a novel written by Sasha Sokolov in the 1960s. "A School for Fools" was first circulated via 'samizdat,' or self-publication through underground connections. However, the novel was formally published in 1976 in U.S....
	Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882)	The Snowstorm
	Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.-Early life:... (1863–1927)	The Petty Demon The Created Legend
	Vladimir Soloukhin Vladimir Soloukhin Vladimir Alexeyevich Soloukhin was a Russian poet and writer. Born in Alepino, a village in what is now Vladimir Oblast, he was raised in a peasant family.Soloukhin was educated in a mechanical technicum, where he studied to be a mechanic.... (1924–1997)	Verdict
	Leonid Solovyov Leonid Solovyov Leonid Vasilyevich Solovyov was a Russian writer and playwright.Born in Tripoli, Syria where his father taught at the Russian consulate, he began writing as a newspaper correspondent for the Pravda Vostoka, published in Tashkent... (1906–1962)	Tale of Hodja Nasreddin Nasreddin Nasreddin was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or...
	Vsevolod Solovyov Vsevolod Solovyov Vsevolod Sergeevich Solovyov was a Russian historical novelist. His most famous work is Chronicle of Four Generations , an account of the fictional Gorbatov family from the time of Catherine the Great to the mid-nineteenth century... (1849–1903)
	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was aRussian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of... (1918–2008)	The First Circle The First Circle In the First Circle is a novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released in 1968. A fuller version of the book was published in English in 2009.... Cancer Ward The Red Wheel The Red Wheel The Red Wheel is a cycle of novels by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, retelling and exploring the passing of Imperial Russia and the birth-pangs of the Soviet Union... One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir . The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov...
	Orest Somov Orest Somov Orest Mikhailovich Somov was a Ukrainian romantic writer who wrote in the Russian language. He was a writer, journalist, literary critic, and translator. Somov was born in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast. He studied in the Kharkiv University, then moved to Saint Petersburg.Much of his writing deals... (1793–1833)	Mommy and Sonny
	Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.-Biography:... (born 1955)	The Queue
	Konstantin Staniukovich Konstantin Staniukovich Konstantin Mikhailovich Staniukovich or Stanyukovich was a Russian writer, remembered today mostly for his stories of the Russian Imperial Navy.-Early life:... (1843–1903)	Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds
	Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Arkady and Boris Strugatsky The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are Soviet Jewish-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated on their fiction.-Life and work:... Arkady (1925–1991) Boris (born 1933)	Prisoners of Power Prisoners of Power Prisoners of Power also known as Inhabited Island is a science fiction novel written by Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. It was written in 1969 and originally published in 1971, the English translation was released in 1977... The Kid from Hell The Kid from Hell The Kid from Hell is a 1974 sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe. The English translation was included in a single volume entitled Escape Attempt with the other Noon universe stories Escape Attempt and Space Mowgli.-Plot summary:The novel tells the story of Gack, a... Hard to Be a God Hard to Be a God Hard to be a God is a 1964 sci-fi novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.The novel follows Anton, an undercover operative from the future planet Earth, in his mission on an alien planet, that is populated by human beings, whose society has not advanced beyond the Middle Ages... Roadside Picnic Roadside Picnic Roadside Picnic is a short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky between January 18 and November 3 of 1971. As of 1998, 38 editions of the novel were published in 20 countries. The novel was first translated to English by Antonina W. Bouis...
	Mikhail Sushkov Mikhail Sushkov Mikhail Vasilyevich Sushkov was a young Russian nobleman and writer of a small body of prose and poetry, notable for his autobiographical suicide novel... (1775–1792)	The Russian Werther

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	Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov Alexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov , October 7, 1885 – September 3, 1938, was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Alexander was born in Kazan where his father was a surveyor. He studied law at the University of Kazan. In 1905 he joined the Bolshevik party. He was drafted in 1914, and... (1885–1938)	Chocolate
	Nadezhda Teffi Nadezhda Teffi Nadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi, was a Russian humorist writer. Teffi is a pseudonym. Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya after her marriage Nadezhda Alexandrovna Buchinskaya... (1872–1952)	Time Strangers Close Friends
	Nikolay Teleshov Nikolay Teleshov Nikolay Dmitryevich Teleshov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Teleshov was born in Moscow where his father was a merchant. His poems were first published in 1884. In the 1880s and 1890s he wrote short stories and novellas, including the story he's best known for, The Duel... (1867–1957)	The Duel
	Vladimir Tendryakov Vladimir Tendryakov Vladimir Tendryakov was a Soviet short story writer and novelist.-Biography:He was born at Makorovskaya near Vologda in 1923. His father was a civil servant. He studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. He started writing in the late 1940s and graduated with a degree in... (1923–1984)	Son-in-Law Three, Seven, Ace
	Sergey Terpigorev Sergey Terpigorev -Biography:Terpigorev was born on May 12, 1841, in the village of Nikolsky in the Usmansky District into an impoverished noble family. He attended grammar school, and in 1861-62, studied at Saint Petersburg State University... (1841-1895)	The Ice Broke
	Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979)	War
	Vladislav Titov Vladislav Titov Vladislav Andreevich Titov was a Soviet socialist realist writer.At the age of 26 he lost both arms in a coal mine accident. He became a novelist, writing with a pen held by his teeth, and produced several novels, the most famous being Defying death .Titov was born into a wheat farmer's family in... (1934–1987)
	Tatyana Tolstaya Tatyana Tolstaya Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.- Family :She was born into a family of rich literary tradition. Her paternal grandfather was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, an important Russian-Soviet writer known as 'the Red... (born 1951)	The Slynx White Walls
	Aleksey K. Tolstoy Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy Count Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, often referred to as A. K. Tolstoy , was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, considered to be the most important nineteenth-century Russian historical dramatist... (1817–1875)	Prince Serebrenni
	Aleksey N. Tolstoy Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy , nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels... (1883–1945)	Buratino Buratino Buratino is the main character of the book The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, Buratino originated as a character in the commedia dell'arte. The name Buratino is derived from the... Aelita Aelita Aelita , also known as Aelita: Queen of Mars, is a silent film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel of the same name... Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin The Garin Death Ray also known as The Death Box and The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin is a science fiction novel by the noted Russian author Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy written in 1926–1927. It was one of the first science fiction novels in Russian...
	Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist... (1828–1910)	The Cossacks The Cossacks (novel) The Cossacks is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. The Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, calling it one of the finest in the Russian language.... War and Peace War and Peace War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature... Anna Karenina Anna Karenina Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger... The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Death of Ivan Ilyich , first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, and is considered to be one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s.-Characters:...
	Edward Topol Edward Topol Edward Vladimirovich Topol , real name Topelberg is a Russian novelist.-Biography:Born in Baku, Topol spent his teenage years finishing local school in Baku and graduated from Azerbaijan State Economic University. He also did his military service in Estonia... (born 1938)	Red Square
	Yury Trifonov Yury Trifonov Yury Valentinovich Trifonov was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "urban prose", a 1970s movement inspired by the psychologically complicated works of Anton Chekhov and his 20th-century American followers... (1925–1981)	Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye
	Gavriil Troyepolsky Gavriil Troyepolsky Gavriil Nikolayevich Troyepolsky was a Soviet writer, best known for his novel White Bim Black Ear.-Biography:... (1905–1995)	White Bim Black Ear White Bim Black Ear White Bim Black Ear is a 1977 Soviet film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. The movie is based upon the book of the same name, written by Gavriil Troyepolsky. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.- Plot :...
	Alexei Tsvetkov Alexei Tsvetkov Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov is a Russian poet and essayist. Not to be confused with Alexei Vyacheslavovich Tsvetkov , a younger journalist, an editor of Limonka newspaper.-Biography:Alexei Tsvetkov grew up in Zaporizhia and briefly studied chemistry at the Odessa... (born 1947)
	Evgenia Tur Evgenia Tur Evgenia Tur was a Russian writer, critic, journalist and publisher. Her birth name was Elizaveta Vasilyevna Sukhovo-Kobylina. Her full married name was Countess Elizaveta Vasilyevna Salias De Tournemire. The playwright Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin was her brother.-Early years:Elizaveta was born in... (1815–1892)	Antonina The Shalonski Family
	Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century... (1818–1883)	A Sportsman's Sketches A Sportsman's Sketches A Sportsman's Sketches was an 1852 collection of short stories by Ivan Turgenev. It was the first major writing that gained him recognition... Home of the Gentry Home of the Gentry Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century... On the Eve On the Eve On the Eve is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. Turgenev embellishes this love story with observations on middle class life and interposes some art and philosophy.... Fathers and Sons Fathers and Sons Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети , which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony.- Historical context and notes :The fathers...
	Yury Tynyanov Yury Tynyanov Yury Nikolaevich Tynyanov was a famous Soviet/Russian writer, literary critic, translator, scholar and screenwriter. He was an authority on Pushkin and an important member of the Russian Formalist school.-Life and work:... (1894–1943)	Lieutenant Kijé

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	Anya Ulinich Anya Ulinich -Awards:* Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Finalist * Goldberg Prize for Emerging Writers of Jewish Fiction Winner * National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" Winner -External links:***... (born 1973)	Petropolis
	Lyudmila Ulitskaya Lyudmila Ulitskaya Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria on February 21, 1943... (born 1943)	Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein
	Gleb Uspensky Gleb Uspensky - Early life :Uspensky was born in the city of Tula, where his father was a government official. He attended the gymnasiums at Tula and Chernihiv, devoting much of his time to the reading of the Russian classics. He studied at the university of St. Petersburg for a short time in 1861, until it was... (1843–1902)	The Steam Chicken
	Nikolay Uspensky Nikolay Uspensky Nikolay Vasilyevich Uspensky , born May 31, 1837 – died November 2, 1889, was a Russian writer, and a cousin of fellow writer Gleb Uspensky.-Biography:... (1837–1889)	Porridge The Village Schoolmaster

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	Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890)
	Tatiana Vedenska Tatiana Vedenska Tatiana Vedenska is a widely known Russian writer, and novelist.-Biography:Tatiana was born in Moscow into the family of an engineer. Her great grandfather on her mother’s side was Sergey Vasilievich Baskakov, the Russian composer, a nobleman. Her great grandmother was a Polish gipsy. When... (born 1976)
	Mikhail Veller Mikhail Veller Mikhail Iosifovich Veller is a Russian writer.Mikhail Veller was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR in 1948. In 1972 he graduated with a degree in linguistics from Leningrad University... (born 1948)	The Guru
	Alexander Veltman Alexander Veltman Alexander Fomich Veltman was one of the most successful Russian prose writers of the 1830s and 1840s, "popular for various modes of Romantic fiction—historical, Gothic, fantastic, and folkloristic." He was one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction.... (1800–1870)	The Wanderer
	Anastasya Verbitskaya Anastasya Verbitskaya Anastasya Alekseyevna Verbitskaya , , was a Russian novelist, playwright, screenplay writer, publisher and feminist.- Early life :... (1861–1928)	The Keys to Happiness
	Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945)	Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe
	Lidia Veselitskaya Lidia Veselitskaya Lidia Ivanovna Veselitskaya , born March 17, 1857 – died February 23, 1936, was a Russian writer who used the pseudonym V. Mikulich.-Biography:... (1857–1936)	Mimi's Marriage
	Nikolai Virta Nikolai Virta Nikolai Yevgenyevich Virta was a Soviet writer who developed the theory of "conflictless" drama.-Biography:Nikolai Virta was born in the village of Bolshaya Lazovka near Tambov, into the family of a village priest who was shot in 1921 as a supporter of Aleksandr Antonov... (1906-1976)	Alone
	Georgi Vladimov Georgi Vladimov Georgi Nikolaevich Vladimov , real family name Volosevich was a Russian dissident writer.-Biography:... (1931–2003)	Faithful Ruslan
	Vladimir Voinovich Vladimir Voinovich Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinovich is a Russian writer and a dissident... (born 1932)	Moscow 2042 Moscow 2042 Moscow 2042 is a 1986 novel by Vladimir Voinovich. In this book, the alter ego of the author travels to the future, where he sees how communism has been built up in Moscow: at first, it seems the government has actually been successful in doing so... Private Ivan Chonkin The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin and its sequels, Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin , and Displaced Person , constitute the magnum opus of a Soviet dissident writer...
	Zinaida Volkonskaya Zinaida Volkonskaya Princess Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya , was a Russian writer, poet, singer, composer, salonist and lady in waiting. She was an important figure within the Russian culture life in the 19th-century... (1792-1862)	The Dream: A Letter
	Alexander Volkov Alexander Melentyevich Volkov Alexander Melentyevich Volkov was a Soviet novelist and mathematician.He wrote several historical novels, but is mostly remembered for a series of children's books based on L... (1891–1977)	The Wizard of the Emerald City The Wizard of the Emerald City The Wizard of the Emerald City is a 1939 children's novel by Russian writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov. The book is a loose translation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
	Marko Vovchok Marko Vovchok Marko Vovchok , 22 December 1833 – 10 August 1907) was a famous Ukrainian and Russian writer of Ukrainian descent. Her pen name, Marko Vovchok, was invented by Panteleimon Kulish.-Biography:... (1833–1907)	Ukrainian Folk Tales
	Julia Voznesenskaya Julia Voznesenskaya Julia Voznesenskaya ; born 1940 in Leningrad is a Russian author of books with an Orthodox Christian worldview.In 1976 Voznesenskaya was sentenced to four years of exile for Anti-Soviet Propaganda. In 1980 she emigrated to Germany. In 1996-1999 she lived in Lesninsky Russian Orthodox Convent in... (born 1940)	The Women's Decameron

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	Alexander Yakovlev Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlev Alexander Stepanovich Yakovlev was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Yakovlev was born into the family of a house painter in the town of Volsk. He fought in World War 1. His works concentrate on the lives of working class people... (1886–1953)	The Peasant
	Alexander Yashin Alexander Yashin Alexander Yakovlevich Yashin was a Soviet writer associated with the Village Prose movement.-Early life:Alexander was born in northern Russia in the village of Bludnovo, Vologda Region, into a poor peasant family. Yashin finished a teacher's training college, and spent some time teaching in a... (1913–1968)	A Feast of Rowan Berries
	Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972)	Andromeda Andromeda (novel) Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale a.k.a. Andromeda Nebula is a science fiction novel by the Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov, written and published in 1957. The novel was made into a film in 1967, The Andromeda Nebula- Plot summary :... Razor's Edge The Bull's Hour The Bull's Hour The Bull's Hour is a social science fiction novel written by Russian author and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov in 1968... The Land of Foam The Land of Foam The Land of Foam also known as At the Edge of Oikoumene and Great Arc is a novel written by the Soviet writer Ivan Yefremov in 1946.-Plot summary:...
	Dmitri Yemets Dmitri Yemets Dmitri Aleksandrovich Yemets is a Russian author of children's and young adult fantasy literature.He is most famous for his Tanya Grotter series and spin-offs, which he calls "a parody" or, alternatively, as "a sort of Russian answer" to Harry Potter. He has been repeatedly threatened, by J.K... (born 1974)	Tanya Grotter series Tanya Grotter Tanya Grotter is the female protagonist of a Russian fantasy novel series by Dmitri Yemets. Tanya Grotter is an orphan with intentional resemblances to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter...
	Venedict Yerofeyev (1938-1990)	Moscow-Petushki Moscow-Petushki Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev....
	Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Yevtushenko Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films.-Early life:... (born 1933)	Wild Berries
	Semyon Yushkevich Semyon Yushkevich Semyon Solomonovich Yushkevich ,, was a Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda... (1868–1927)

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	Mikhail Zagoskin Mikhail Zagoskin Mikhail Nikolayevich Zagoskin , , was a Russian writer. Author of social comedies, historical novels.Zagoskin was born in the village of Ramzay in Penza Oblast... (1789–1852)	Tales of Three Centuries
	Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000)	The South American Variant
	Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Zamyatin Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution... (1884–1937)	We We (novel) We is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences during the Russian revolution of 1905, the Russian revolution of 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, and his work in the Tyne shipyards during the First... A Provincial Tale
	Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972)	Anna
	Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824-1883)	The Backward Girl
	Vera Zhelikhovsky Vera Zhelikhovsky Vera Zhelikhovsky, was a Russian writer, mostly of children's stories. She is Madame Blavatsky's sister.Vera Zhelikhovsky wrote also fantastic stories with heroes having secret knowledge like Cornelius Agrippa, shamans, and Oriental magicians.-English Translations:*The General's Will, , from... (1835–1896)	The General's Will
	Maria Zhukova (1804–1855)	Evenings on the Karpovka
	Zinovy Zinik Zinovy Zinik Zinovy Zinik is a novelist and broadcaster.Zinik was born in Moscow in 1945. He studied painting at an art school and later studied topology at Moscow University. He started writing prose in the 1960s and contributed to the journal Teatr.He emigrated to Israel in 1975... (born 1945)	The Mushroom-Picker
	Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal Lydia Dmitrievna Zinovieva-Annibal was a Russian prose writer and dramatist.Zinovieva-Annibal was associated with the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. She hosted a literary salon, 'The Tower', with her husband, the poet Viacheslav Ivanov... (1866–1907)	The Tragic Menagerie
	Nikolay Zlatovratsky Nikolay Zlatovratsky Nikolay Nikolayevich Zlatovratsky , born December 26, 1845 – died December 23, 1911, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Zlatovratsky was born in Vladimir, where his father was a minor government official. His father set up a library for local people, and it was here that Zlatovratsky first... (1845–1911)	Old Shadows
	Mikhail Zoshchenko Mikhail Zoshchenko -Biography:Zoshchenko was born in 1895, in Poltava, but spent most of his life in St. Petersburg / Leningrad. His Ukrainian father was a mosaicist responsible for the exterior decoration of the Suvorov Museum in Saint Petersburg. The future writer attended the Faculty of Law at the Saint Petersburg... (1895–1958)	The Galosh Scenes from the Bathhouse

See also

• List of Russian language playwrights
• List of Russian language poets
• Russian literature
  Russian literature
  Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Russian language
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  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  
• Russian culture
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